Someday Later...

Hayley Williams && Chad Gilbert got married yesterday and I am so happy for them, I could burst!

Rape was not the only method used to terrorize and de-humanize black women. Sadistic floggings of naked black women were another method employed to strip the female slave of dignity. In the Victorian world, where white women were religiously covering every body part, black women were daily stripped of their clothing and publicly whipped. Slave-owners were well aware that it added to the degradation and humiliation of female slaves for them to be forced to appear naked before male whippers and onlookers. A Kentucky slave recalled: The women are subjected to these punishments as rigorously as the men—not even pregnancy exempts them; in that case before binding them to the stake, a hole is made in the ground to accommodate the enlarged form of the victim.

Do you know what I think of the new moon? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams. And when it tips on a cloud some of them spill out and fall into your sleep.

Stretchmarks are beautiful, in my opinion